Lajja by taslima nasrin

Sungguh memprihatinkan jika hari ini masih ada orang-orang yang menolak pluralisme. Hardly many of us come across stories of horrors from these communal riots, but when they do come to light, it is hard for us to believe that fellow humans could turn into such animals. While it spiked communal unrest in India, immediate butterfly effect was visible somewhere else, someplace that shares the same secular values, at Bangladesh.

When societal institutions like religion, state, family and society that should provide conducive and safe environment for people in general and women in particular irrespective of their religious backgrounds turn against them, the situation becomes rather abysmal.

It's also a story of a nation that has betrayed its people. The story worked in parts for me.

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Taslim I am afraid has not really explored any ways of addressing this issue choosing instead to plainly list the atrocities resulted by the rise of fundamentalism.

All the characters lajma like newspapers.

Lajma are several other ways in which the Hindus are discriminated, and both were aware of them, but if you are emotionally invested in some belief you hold on to it against much contrary evidence. Lajja chronicles the terrifying disintegration of a Hindu family living in Bangladesh in the aftermath of the riots that break out to avenge the destruction of the mosque in India. In Lajja, she mainly focuses on the suffering of women. Numerous tales of heroic women killing themselves rather than succumbing to sexual assault are very much a part of Bangladeshi folk culture.

Lajja: Shame

They took the terrified little girl to garden nearby and raped her…a case was filed…no one was arrested. Thus, women remain as mere object or property to men. Secularism is the answer in Indian Taslima has tried to focus on the ugly spectre of communalism in Bangladesh after the Baburi masjid demolition in India.

He only longed to rape one of the Muslim women out of sheer revenge for what they had done to his sister.

Sep 24, Veena rated it liked it Nasrij Thus, the anti-fundamentalism stance of the novel also envelops anti-patriarchal resistance wherein gender identity is privileged over religion particularly when Nasrin delineates atrocities against women in the same way as religion Islam supersedes nationalism when it comes to the abuse of the religious minority Hindus. Iapun mendidik kedua anaknya, Suranjan dan Maya, menjadi humanis seperti dirinya.

Communal riots is a term residents of South Asia know very well, and fear as well. What makes me extremely sad is that at the end of the book, they have to sneak out of their own houses like thieve, dejected and without any taslimz.

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Lajja: Shame by Taslima Nasrin

At times you will feel sheer hatred towards the crime committed against a specific sect, and at times you feel pity towards humans who take religion above everything else in this world. The only thing that Suronjon can burn in his country is his books, that contributed towards his idealism, an idealism that is now shattered raslima in ruins.

She would sleep fitfully and would wake up abruptly in the nasrni of the night.

This inter-mingling of numerous statistical data with a fictional plot is done with such subtleness and so seamlessly that it becomes a part of the story. At every bend, Sudhamoy and his family suffer humiliation as a result of anti-minority policies crafted by the lawmakers, but Sudhamoy never once thinks about leaving his land.

Obviously tas,ima was Hindus in India and not Bangladesh who were guilty of destroying mosque, but it has always been a tendency of weak minds to carry out their anger not on those who they are angry at, but on those on whom they can afford to be angry at.

Taslima has put a lot of efforts to make this book factual, which sometimes gives feel of reading a journalist diary. Although I also had an Uncle who had another attractive, practical and secular idea as nxsrin what should be done to disputed land and if you were to extend the idea a little, it taspima solve all religious problems at once - his idea was to build a pub in that place, and both Hindus and Muslims would drink in the pub in complete communal harmony.

At every step, Kironmoyee had to sacrifice and behave according to the imposed authority of the ruling class in Bangladesh.

Lajja: Shame | Taslima Nasrin | Book Review

The book was first published in in Bengali and was subsequently banned in Bangladesh. She is, in fact, viewed as a bad or fallen girl. They are free to pray in the mosque, do what they want for their religion, wear Burkha, have nsarin beard, wear a skull cap on their head, and to follow the rituals of their religion.